Neue Freie Presse
A Manifesto for Free Trade
On 19 October 1926 the Vienna Neue Freie Presse led with an editorial on a newly published manifesto for free trade.
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Shanghai in Danger
The front page of 18 October 1926 led with cabled news from abroad.
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How Do We Eliminate the Danger of New Wars?
On 17 October 1926 the Neue Freie Presse printed an essay by Henry Ford, datelined New York, that opens with a prediction a leading munitions manufacturer had made in Ford's Dearborn office some five years earlier: the next war would be waged against the United States, led by Japan and Mexico, because of American commercial supremacy, its gold reserves and the money other nations owed it.
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Final Resignation of the Ramek Cabinet
The front page of 16 October 1926 led with a long Vienna editorial on the final resignation of Chancellor Rudolf Ramek's cabinet and the return of Ignaz Seipel, with the civil servants' strike still unresolved.
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Resignation of the Hungarian Cabinet.
The Vienna Neue Freie Presse of 15 October 1926 reported from Budapest that Count Stephan Bethlen had handed the resignation of the entire Hungarian cabinet to the Regent after an extraordinary council of ministers.
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Count Tisza and the War with Italy.
The Neue Freie Presse of 14 October 1926 led with a Budapest report on the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' edition of Count Stephan Tisza's wartime letters.
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Two German Ministers in Czechoslovakia.
The Neue Freie Presse of 13 October 1926 led with an editorial welcoming the new Švehla cabinet in Czechoslovakia, which for the first time included two German ministers, the Agrarian leader Professor Spina and the Christian Social leader Professor Mayr-Harting.
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Spina and Meyer-Harting — Ministerial Candidates
This front page of 12 October 1926 looked from Vienna at two neighbouring political crises.
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The Probable Concessions to the Civil Servants
The Neue Freie Presse of 11 October 1926 previewed that day's cabinet meeting in Vienna, where the Finance Ministry was to present calculations for a permanent settlement of federal employees' pay; the leading idea was reportedly a linear percentage increase plus a separate payment twice a year.
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The Industry of Debt-Making.
The Neue Freie Presse of 10 October 1926 printed an article under Henry Ford's name, datelined New York.
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Postponed!
The Neue Freie Presse of 9 October 1926 led with a jubilant editorial on the Austrian civil servants' last-minute vote to postpone their strike.
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Misfortune, Not Crime
The Neue Freie Presse of 8 October 1926 led with an editorial on the parliamentary committee examining the ruin of the Lower Austrian Bauernbank.
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Colonel General v. Seeckt's Request to Resign
The Vienna paper carried a Berlin telegram reporting that General Hans von Seeckt, chief of the German Army Command, had asked to resign.
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Opposition to Poincaré in the Finance Committee
The Neue Freie Presse of 6 October 1926 opened with two foreign telegrams and a long interview.
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Dr. Wirth for German-French Understanding.
The Vienna Neue Freie Presse of 5 October 1926 gave its lead space to an admiring editorial portrait of former German chancellor Joseph Wirth, whose Sunday speech at the Pan-European Congress in Vienna urged German-French reconciliation.
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Progress of World Peace.
The Neue Freie Presse of 4 October 1926 greeted the previous day's opening of the Paneuropean Congress in Vienna as a historic event.
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Sensational Statements from the House of Morgan.
The Vienna Neue Freie Presse of 3 October 1926 gave its front page to an interview with Thomas W.
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Paneuropa and the Economy
This Vienna edition gave generous space to the idea of European economic unity.
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The First Step Toward Paneuro…:
The Neue Freie Presse of 1 October 1926 opened with a Vienna editorial welcoming the new iron pact among German, French, Belgian and neighbouring producers.
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Three Hundred Against One
The Neue Freie Presse of 30 September 1926 led with a Viennese workplace story told with open sarcasm: some 300 workers at a Heiligenstadt coachwork factory demanded the dismissal of a young colleague who had marched with a Catholic youth group whose procession had clashed with the Social Democratic Schutzbund, and struck when management refused.
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Resignation of the Kondylis Cabinet.
The Neue Freie Presse of September 29, 1926 reported on political negotiations in Athens, Paris and Moscow.
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The former Greek dictator describes his downfall
The Neue Freie Presse of September 28, 1926 presented a deposed Greek ruler’s defense of his authority alongside two reports on organized labour.
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Crisis Talk.
The Neue Freie Presse of September 27, 1926 linked speculation about Ramek's departure to urgent financial business: bank advances, unemployment burdens, beer taxation and the next budget.
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The Middle Classes and the Political Crisis
The opening editorial urges Austria’s middle classes to rebuild liberal democracy amid disgust with the two major parties, linking political renewal to the hope of union with Germany.
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A calmer session of the committee of inquiry
The main heading characterizes the inquiry session as calmer and announces further questioning of the finance minister.
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The Federal President on the future of the world economy.
The saved headlines concern the federal president’s view of the world economy’s future and a French foreign-ministry statement about Stresemann’s speech.
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Conference on evacuation of occupied territories; probable meeting at The Hague
The readable headings announce a probable Hague conference on evacuation of occupied territories, the resignation of Postsparkasse governor Dr Schuster with Dr Reisch provisionally taking charge, and an expected understanding in the English coal strike following new miners’ proposals.
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Bulgaria’s refugee loan and its economic significance
The selected heading presents the refugee loan as economically beneficial for Bulgaria and attributes the article to the country’s prime minister.
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The hurricane in Florida: 1,215 dead, 5,000 injured; conflicting estimates of damage
The short Florida dispatch gives a large reported death toll and several incompatible loss estimates.
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The meaning of the Lueger commemoration
A Vienna editorial uses the Lueger commemoration to warn against political self-destruction.
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Remembering Lueger: the Lueger monument
Salten describes the Lueger monument as the work of the politician’s surviving party and associates, praising his gifts while denying him greatness and a broad horizon.
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Zelenka as dictator
The editorial attacks renewed demands by recalling a previously approved civil-service agreement and warning of a return to inflation.
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Raking over embarrassments: an inadequate defence in the Zentralbank affair
A sharp Central Bank polemic dominates the page.
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Physician and detective at once
Financial accountability leads the page, with an editorial criticizing preferential public support for Styrian institutions.
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Stresemann and Briand before the League — The beginning of the “European conversation”
Goldmann’s leading essay sees complementary rhetorical roles for Stresemann and Briand at Geneva.
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The new regime in Greece
Kondylis presents the Greek army’s intervention as a restoration of public liberties.
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Stresemann on his impressions of Geneva
Neue Freie Presse couples Stresemann's satisfaction at Geneva with a domestic demand for lasting settlement of public-service pay.
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Primo de Rivera’s desperate struggle
The Vienna evening paper leads with a renewed confrontation between Spain’s artillery officers and the dictatorship, including deaths and injuries at Pamplona, then reports British marines landing at Canton after the seizure of British steamers at Wanhsien.
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